Stick the armband on Palmer – fantasy football tips

Whatever chips you might have left to play this season, you will be focusing your transfers on the teams with double gameweeks still to come.

Chelsea and Tottenham both double up in gameweeks 35 and 37 while Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle and Brighton all double in 37.

A popular strategy now we have reached gameweek 35 will be to play the wildcard to set you up for a bench boost in gameweek 37, but Statman Dave said on the Fantasy 606 podcast that it might actually be better to save the wildcard for gameweek 36.

That way you can keep your Arsenal and Liverpool players for another week for their games against Tottenham and West Ham, as well as Ollie Watkins who has a home fixture as Aston Villa face Chelsea.

That depends on how you think Liverpool will respond to their 2-0 defeat in the Merseyside derby on Wednesday night, but it does feel slightly uncomfortable taking Arsenal defenders or Watkins out of your team to replace them with the likes of Pedro Porro and Nicolas Jackson.

The question as always is: do you go with the player who has two fixtures or the in-form player in a better team who only has one?

I think I would actually try and go with a bit of a balance – I would definitely keep one Arsenal defender on the wildcard and I would even contemplate the idea of an Arsenal midfielder as well, even though they don’t double in gameweek 37.